Sbam Shorts, Your Weekly Small Business Success Tip

There are many great reasons for entrepreneurs like you to belong to the Small Business Association of Michigan. “The quickest word is alignment. So as a community based bank here in Michigan, each of our little branches that are across the state is an individual business. If there's a branch manager that has the goals of maintaining profitability, if you will, in the branch, of providing quality customer service, that's directly in line with every business owner that we work with.” Marc Judge is VP Community Banker for Independent Bank in Traverse City. “The sponsorship arrangement that we have with the Small Business Association is the subset leadership group that we've partnered with. And what's really just encouraging is a lot of the same business owners that I work with and see and deal with on a daily, weekly, monthly basis are the same folks that are participating in that. And I would just encourage any business owner the value that you can get out of the Small Business Association of Michigan, you kn